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Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Photograph Collection Three: D-Day Landings to Berlin
Primary SourcesPhotograph, U.S. troops set up command posts on Utah Beach, June 8, 1944
Photograph, Taking a “breather” after gaining comparative safety offered by a concrete wall…, June 9, 1944
Photograph, Photo taken on D+2, after relief forces reached the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc...
Photograph, American troops in tank passing the Arc de Triomphe after the liberation of Paris, August 1944
Photograph, 2d Lt. Jacob Harris, Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by 63rd Division, April 16, 1945
Photograph, Pvt. Joseph Scrippens, Soldiers of the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion and tank of the 22nd Tank Battalion move through smoke filled street, April 22, 1945
Photograph, Moving to Austria. The War Against Germany, Europe and Adjacent Areas
Photograph, The Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again…, August 25, 1944
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
U.S. troops set up command posts on Utah Beach, June 8, 1944Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home (65-328-1)
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Taking a “breather” after gaining comparative safety offered by a concrete wall…, June 9, 1944Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home (71-248)
Taking a “breather” after gaining comparative safety offered by a concrete wall, American troops of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, move over the crest of a hill to interior of Northern France.
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Photo taken on D+2, after relief forces reached the Rangers at Pointe Du Hoc...U.S. Army Signal Corps (SC190240)
Photo taken on D+2, after relief forces reached the Rangers at Pointe du Hoc. The American flag had been spread out to stop fire of friendly tanks coming from inland. Some German prisoners are being moved in after capture by the
relieving forces.
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
American troops in tank passing the Arc de Triomphe after the liberation of Paris, August 1944National Archives and Records Administration (208-YE-68)
“We couldn’t stick around long though. The Jerries were on the run and we wanted to keep them that way. The Tricolor flag flying from the Arc de Triomphe looked pretty good as we went through.”
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
2d Lt. Jacob Harris, Infantrymen of the 255th Infantry Regiment move down a street in Waldenburg to hunt out the Hun after a recent raid by 63rd Division, April 16, 1945National Archives and Records Administration (111-SC-205778)
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Pvt. Joseph Scrippens, Soldiers of the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion and tank of the 22nd Tank Battalion move through smoke filled street, April 22, 1945
National Archives and Records Administration (111-SC-205298)
Pvt. Joseph Scrippens, Soldiers of the 55th Armored Infantry Battalion and tank of the 22nd Tank Battalion move through smoke filled street, Wernberg, Germany.
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Moving to Austria. The War Against Germany, Europe and Adjacent Areas. U.S. Army in World War II Pictorial Record, page 424Center of Military History
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Activity: “What Do You See?”: Using Photographs to Learn about World War II | Photograph Collection: D-Day Landings to Berlin
ABMCEDUCATION.ORG American Battle Monuments Commission | National History Day | Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
The Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again..., August 25, 1944Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum (65638(22))
The Tricolor flies from the Eiffel Tower again. American soldiers who took part in the liberation of Paris, August 25, 1944, halt their jeep to look at the Eiffel Tower, from which the French flag flies again.
Archivist note: The jeep is a Willys MB.
